Another Day in Cleveland

This morning, the hubbies went shopping at the Westside Market while I attempted to sleep in a little. I had no success: my crackberry was going nuts with incoming emergency pages from the office. While there was little I could to do help the work situation, I also couldn't easily ignore the crackberry, or simply turn it off in case something I could tackle should arise.

With reluctance, I eventually roused myself from bed to at least tend to some code deployments to our disaster recovery site, catch up on some minor documentation on our wiki and test some network adjustments made by our network engineering team.

When the boys returned home, we scooted out to "Mi Pueblo" for lunch: great food, fast service and very low price! I'd go back again.

By mid-afternoon, I was still feeling like a slug --as were the boys-- so we opted for a brief nap. Yay for mid-afternoon naps!

By late afternoon, we were on our way to the party supplies store to pick up some items, then off to the hall where tomorrow's reception following the wedding will be held. We were originally going to be assisting with decorating; somehow, we were placed largely in charge of it. The same sort of thing happened yesterday at the wedding rehearsal: kent4str and I were going to be there in support of cuyahogarvr (father of the groom) but have since been escalated to being ushers for the wedding and escorts for the bride's mother & aunt for the candle-lighting portion of the wedding. Whee!

Before ultimately getting to the hall decorating though, we returned to the same ice cream shop we visited yesterday. I wanted to have a double-scoop of the wintermint ice cream with hot fudge sauce, but my dear ones staged an intervention and talked me down to a single scoop. Bastards.

- Mine is the large one in front.

The decorating went well so after chatting & coordinating in the parking lot of the hall, the larger portion of the family sped off to the local Red Robin's for a light dinner. I was seated next to step-grandson Kevin again so brace yourself for baby cuteness:


We're now back at Casa Vannello, mellowing for the balance of the evening. We need to be back at the wedding hall for 9am tomorrow to do a final setup prior to the 10am service. Pray for sunshine!

Another Day in Cleveland

This morning, the hubbies went shopping at the Westside Market while I attempted to sleep in a little. I had no success: my crackberry was going nuts with incoming emergency pages from the office. While there was little I could to do help the work situation, I also couldn't easily ignore the crackberry, or simply turn it off in case something I could tackle should arise.

With reluctance, I eventually roused myself from bed to at least tend to some code deployments to our disaster recovery site, catch up on some minor documentation on our wiki and test some network adjustments made by our network engineering team.

When the boys returned home, we scooted out to "Mi Pueblo" for lunch: great food, fast service and very low price! I'd go back again.

By mid-afternoon, I was still feeling like a slug --as were the boys-- so we opted for a brief nap. Yay for mid-afternoon naps!

By late afternoon, we were on our way to the party supplies store to pick up some items, then off to the hall where tomorrow's reception following the wedding will be held. We were originally going to be assisting with decorating; somehow, we were placed largely in charge of it. The same sort of thing happened yesterday at the wedding rehearsal: kent4str and I were going to be there in support of cuyahogarvr (father of the groom) but have since been escalated to being ushers for the wedding and escorts for the bride's mother & aunt for the candle-lighting portion of the wedding. Whee!

Before ultimately getting to the hall decorating though, we returned to the same ice cream shop we visited yesterday. I wanted to have a double-scoop of the wintermint ice cream with hot fudge sauce, but my dear ones staged an intervention and talked me down to a single scoop. Bastards.

- Mine is the large one in front.

The decorating went well so after chatting & coordinating in the parking lot of the hall, the larger portion of the family sped off to the local Red Robin's for a light dinner. I was seated next to step-grandson Kevin again so brace yourself for baby cuteness:


We're now back at Casa Vannello, mellowing for the balance of the evening. We need to be back at the wedding hall for 9am tomorrow to do a final setup prior to the 10am service. Pray for sunshine!